When moments of disaster strike close by, near in geography or near to our hearts, it’s fashionable to give and talk about how much we should be doing for the people affected by the disaster. It’s hard to find reasons not to give our time, money and effort towards our hurting human family just a [...]

Back in 2005, Haiti gave the US $50,000 dollars in support of Katrina victims. That is almost DOUBLE (as a percentage of total GDP) what the US is giving to Haiti to help with the earthquake. Not to mention the loss of human life in Haiti will be 25-50 times that of Katrina.
But doesn’t the [...]

I had lunch with John today. We did a little financial check up on how his debt reduction was going and talked about how we could maximize his efforts to continue his journey out of debt.
I told him how his story (see his full story here) has by far been the most popular thing I’ve [...]

Last June I posted that my friend John had been able to pay off $19,377.03 of debt by using some cool strategies we worked out when I sat down with him.  Check out how he did it here.
He emailed me this weekend with an update. He now has paid off $32,076.89.
Wow.
Way to go John!!! So [...]

It was 6:00am and I was sitting with my back to the door eating Fruit Loops. I didn’t realize he was there until he had pulled out the chair next to me and sat down.
My Fruit Loops quickly lost their luster.
Here was a guy that had founded Crown, sold millions of books, and was speaking [...]